The customer already operates six Gottwald floating cranes. Instead of the conventional rubber-tyred chassis that Mobile Harbour Cranes are usually installed on, the floating cranes are mounted on barges.
“With our two new Gottwald floating franes, we aim to achieve a flexible increase in our cargo handling capacities and usefully extend our existing logistics”, states Paul Morton, President of St James Stevedoring Partners. “Our customers expect rapid handling of their cargo despite increasing volumes. This goal can only be achieved with high-end cranes, handling rates and reliability.”
Thomas Hagen, Member of the Management Board of the German Demag Cranes AG and COO, states, “Thanks to their high performance and versatility, our floating cranes are becoming more and more established in the market, as shown again by the follow-up order received from St James.”
St James Stevedoring Partners operates with six mid-stream buoys served by Gottwald floating cranes ranging from mile marker (MM) 122 (located just outside of New Orleans International Airport) up to MM 167 on the Lower Mississippi River. The two Model 8 variant G HPK 8400 B floating cranes will be added to the existing fleet and are intended to make the trans-shipment of bulk goods including ores, coal, cereals and fertilisers from larger vessels, up to baby-Capesize, to barges even more efficient.